VerveEarth: Connect with Bloggers around the World

One wonderful thing about the Internet is that it allows people from all corners of the globe to connect with one another. Some people may not know it, but there's a world of other people out there blogging about their lives, their communities, and their beliefs, and VerveEarth can help you find them. The site has links to blogs around the world from Brazil to Kenya, all arranged on a map of the world so you can browse by region. The service even allows you to add your own blog to the community.

It's often easy to forget that there's a world full of voices speaking out about their cultures, their communities, and their opinions. VerveEarth is a simple site that helps you find bloggers in different parts of the world, browse their most recent updates, leave the comments, and connect with them to learn more about their cultures, neighborhoods, and points of view.

VerveEarth is a Google Maps mashup, with blogs highlighted as pinpoints on the map. You can click any one of the featured blogs to bring up a list of their most recent posts and some basic information on the blog owner. Similarly, you can click across the tabs on the info bubble to read some of the comments that other VerveEarth members have left for the user, see some of the user's fans, and see who has recently visited that VerveEarth member's blog.

The user's profile information has, in addition to basic information about the author and where they live, a link to their full blog so you can visit it directly. VerveEarth is designed to be a gateway to discovering international content; not really your primary destination to find your favorite bloggers.

The pinpoints already on the map when you visit the site aren't all-inclusive. The service features thousands of blogs from around the world, and only a small number are represented when the map is zoomed all the way out. There are boxes over each region on the map that indicate how many blogs the service is tracking in that area, and you can click the box to zoom in and see where those authors are writing.

In addition to the pinpoints on the map, you can click on any country or any region to see bloggers in that area. You can also select topics from the top of the page, or use the keyword search at the top to browse for region, country, or even topic of interest.

If you want to see French cooking blogs written by actual French people (who may or may not know how to cook), VerveEarth can help you find them easily. Everything from the daily life of a man living in Santiago, Chile to the poetry of a Ugandan doctor is easily available with just a few clicks. If you're looking to expand your horizons and don't mind landing on a few blogs that you may not be able to read, give VerveEarth a try; and then add your blog to the list so people from around the world can discover you.

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